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THB CHRISTIAN NATION. [f] Tfi Vol. 59.
the girls, and that he had often sionaries and nurses are of J
A r o u n d t h e O l d A r m C h a i r
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seen a drunkard thrust out by the told value. The New YorkCifci
CHRIST REDEEMING SINNERS by any means. There are hund- keeper for daring to speak famil- Mission and Tract Society train
reds of others, many worthy hard- iarly to one of these missionaries, workers along .this line. The wl'
In the Underworld of New York.
working people, but poor. The The Salvation Army is doing a men's Branch of the City MissiaiJ
(Continued frotn last w\e-ck.) district is infested with those who splendid (Work. In their Field aim: i. To carry,the Gospel i
By Anna Pritchard George. traini young men and boys to be work they have twenty stations Christ to all homes in the hvpk
pickpockjets and housebreakers,, and eighty institutions in this part of the city, even the tm^
The worst section of New York
Boys run away from home and are city. Thei'e is now a Club Wom- degraded; 2. To elevate in thb|
is said to be off of Chatham ^^j-awn as if by a magnet to this en's Auxiliary to the Army. The homes the families; 3. To reacf
Square and the Bowery, and right center of crimes. "This human Army runs cheap working men's the children; 4. To minister tf
here is Chinatown. In China- cesspool is the dumping place for hotels and a Rescue Home in the sick poor. They beUeveiifS
town one of the old? landmarks, an astonishing number of young Brooklyn and New York. The searching out the unworthy in this!
and for twenty-five years a chief P^ople-" Notorious dives are one thing they insist on is that full belief that the blood of Jesus"
attraction th Old Ch' plentiful. But graduailly the their leaders must be trained. For will cleanse the foulest, and tli(j;
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Christians are cleaning things up, this purpose they bave their own Holy Spirit teach and sanctify i^
Theatre. It was) an awful place, .bringing the sinners "back to training school. It costs the students most ignorant and degraded. |i
In the theatre itself the air Christ. Doyers street believes in nothing to go through the scbool. I" many cities the populatioDji!
reeked with tobacco and filth. In comibining temporal and spiritual The training is nearly all practi- is composed of those speaking*
the basement was an opium den blessings. During the last six cal. Enough Bible Doctrine is several 'different languages., but*^'
vvhere "the tongs, the batchetmen
and the gunmen conveniently
buried their victims." In this theatre
the tongs
frequently clashed,
till one night twelve were carried
c|ut dead and 28 wounded. That
was tbe death blow of the theatre.
Just at this time ' the Rescue
Society, located for nineteen years
at Nos. 15-17 Doyers street, was
burned out. The Chinese were
afraid to patronize the theatre, so
it was not hard for the Society to
secure a lease of the old building.
The
transformation in th-e place
is an illustration of the transfoa--
mation in the sinner's heart when
Satan is banished and Christ reigns
in his stead. If anything, on
eaith would incite one to},-work
for the Lord a visit to this mission
would. It is heartrending to
see the poor wretches of women
in the audience shrinking back in Hands up for Prayer in the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, New York. ^''
a corner crouching under their months 13,456 suppers have been taught to make them stable and in New York nearly every race.'
shawls. Women who once were given in the cellar of the build- steady when new doctrines are and nationality in tbe world is ]
soft warm little cherubs, cuddled ing, 622 bed tickets given, 26,063 met with. But they are trained represented, and as many lang-''
close in their mother's arms have been sheltered, 12,733 gath- along lines of activity: First Aid uages. How to reach these for-:
—babies just as sweet and inno- ered in Birotherbood meetings, 3,- to the Injured, A'isitation, and eigners was a most perplexing.
cent as the ones m our own home 433 have been converted, 361 boys General Instructioms for Every problem, but it has been solved
circles. Now their faces are sear- under 18 and 329 under 20 have Contingency. The great desire of to a great extent by. two unique'
ed with sm and S|hame, yet tbe been rescued and placed in Chris, the Army is to build a College churches in the lower part of the
soul is still w.Jthm and Jesus loves tian homes. Each night the meeting in Memory of General Booth, city—the East Side Parish M. E.
them dn spite of it all. But Sat- begins at ten, supposed to close $160,000 have b;en raised already. Church of AM Nations, at 9 Secan
la m possession. Many of them at twelve, but often the leaders They wish $1,000,000 in all ond avenue and the Second Avehave
hved nearly all their aives are striving with those seeking $650,000 to be used for the nue Baptist Church These church-,
in this sm cursed district, sold light till nearer two o'clock in the building and the rest as an endow- es aim' to reach everv nationalhere
as white slaves while yet lit- morning. ment. To look in the faces of ity. They have serviced in the diftie
tots. Chinatown is full of In all tbese vile hales and hot- these men and women is an in- ferent languages on Sabbath, and
white girls going down to destruc- beds of vice and crime, there is one spiration in itself to lead a godly organizations for the numerous'
tion-nearly 500 of them-eithei class of missionaries who are al- life. Their work is one of self- peoples during the week. The
there as slaves or drawn by the ways safe from harm—the sweet sacrifice.
,vork among the Chinese women'
glamour of the unnatural life in faced Salvation Army women. The There is so much misery in the and children in the East Side
the opium dens. Cbinatown is husband of one of them said that homes of New York's poverty Parish is the largest in the city,
not composed entirely of Chinese the bartenders themselves protect 'Stricken people, that trained mis- (Cont'nued on page eleven.)
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